I’ll just point out this post:
@Sam_Stone While I grant that the website and writer both seem serious, it’s hard to not get the immediate tingle up the back of the neck when a “serious” author is using “magical thinking” - a deliberately provocative term - as the title for what is purported to be a straightforward policy review. And then when he starts churning out numbers that’s suggesting that we’re 2 orders of magnitude off of being able to convert to renewable energy - while living in nations that are already at something like 20% renewable - it’s pretty hard to continue reading without feeling like this is a deliberately dishonest work. So much so that I have to say:
If you have to lie as a prerequisite of holding your beliefs - be they liberal, libertarian, conservative, republican, or otherwise - then you, fundamentally, do not have any real belief in your political positions.
I have no problem being a Republican and being honest, and posting honest data. If you find difficulty doing the same then you should really ask yourself what political position you’d really rather be holding, because it doesn’t seem to be the one that you’re professing.
If there’s some subconscious part of you, deep down, that has accepted what all the commies and socialists have been saying all this time but you just really really don’t want to admit those things to the conscious part of your mind - well…I’d say that you’re not doing yourself any favors with letting your mind guide you around like that. You’re not doing anything good for yourself or the world, helping to spread nonsense across the Internet.
If you’re uncomfortable with honest right-wing sources so much that you have to branch off into la-la land, then the problem isn’t political leaning, it’s your faith in your own beliefs. Come back to true faith or switch to the party that you really want to be - whatever the hell that is.